Two lone Lyrid meteors on the peak of the meteor shower night, April 22, 2023. Two captured out of 342 frames taken over 2 hours. The sky and ground c


Two lone Lyrid meteors on the peak of the meteor shower night, April 22, 2023. Two captured out of 342 frames taken over 2 hours. The sky and ground come from the exposure with the bright meteor on it, when a dim aurora was also on the northeast horizon. The bright meteor shows the classic green to pink gradient of colours. Vega and Lyra are rising at lower centre. Deneb and Cygnus are at left. Arcturus is at upper right. Even with only two meteors, the location of the Lyrid shower radiant point is apparent by tracing their paths back toward Vega, to a point southwest of Vega, and actually located in Hercules, not in Lyra. This is a blend of two exposures, each 20 seconds with the Venus Optics 15mm lens at f/2 on the Canon R5 at ISO 1600. Taken from home in Alberta, April 22/23, 2023.


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